aeromotacanucks Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 do you have kids? they never stay calm and focused, always running around and destroying everything? maybe you should try some simulator. not a game, a simulator... it happened 2 days ago when my nephew (1 year and 5 months) visited me at my house where I have my computer with my aviation stuff (simulators, charts, documents etc). as always he was running curious to see everything, but at the same time his curiosity destroys the house... when he "reached" the computer he started (as always) punch the keyboard and touch the screen. I didn´t want to see my computer destroyed but at the same time I wanted to let him use the computer on a nice way... I had an idea. "well, perhaps I can put something that is not real but at the same time simulates it. some simulator with a lot of things, cars, water, boats, noise and tons of things to see" instaled on my computer the X-Plane 10 was my choice because it´s a very "visual" simulator, I started the simulator, changed the keyboard settings, selected "AI flies your airplane" and put our little destroyer to see something without destroy it... but the result was way more than we expected he was excited, smilling and laughing, saying "bye" to the "airplane", poiting to the "cars" and other things, stayed there "flying" the airplane like a little Captain, paying attention on the instruments and landscapes while talking with us of course we discovered that he has his favorite airplanes to play, two diferent single engines, the DASH 8-400 and the Boeing 727 the only problem is when we tried to remove him from the chair, he didn´t want and cried. now his mom asked me to install the X-Plane on her computer so our little angel can play too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkeeterHansen Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 Hmm yes. Hilarious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
22Sedinery33 Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 Cool story bro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtlindin Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 that is a good story, made me smile...thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NightHawkSniper Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 Cool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canuckster19 Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 do you have kids? they never stay calm and focused, always running around and destroying everything? maybe you should try some simulator. not a game, a simulator... it happened 2 days ago when my nephew (1 year and 5 months) visited me at my house where I have my computer with my aviation stuff (simulators, charts, documents etc). as always he was running curious to see everything, but at the same time his curiosity destroys the house... when he "reached" the computer he started (as always) punch the keyboard and touch the screen. I didn´t want to see my computer destroyed but at the same time I wanted to let him use the computer on a nice way... I had an idea. "well, perhaps I can put something that is not real but at the same time simulates it. some simulator with a lot of things, cars, water, boats, noise and tons of things to see" instaled on my computer the X-Plane 10 was my choice because it´s a very "visual" simulator, I started the simulator, changed the keyboard settings, selected "AI flies your airplane" and put our little destroyer to see something without destroy it... but the result was way more than we expected he was excited, smilling and laughing, saying "bye" to the "airplane", poiting to the "cars" and other things, stayed there "flying" the airplane like a little Captain, paying attention on the instruments and landscapes while talking with us of course we discovered that he has his favorite airplanes to play, two diferent single engines, the DASH 8-400 and the Boeing 727 the only problem is when we tried to remove him from the chair, he didn´t want and cried. now his mom asked me to install the X-Plane on her computer so our little angel can play too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Sestito Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 Awee hah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aeromotacanucks Posted January 14, 2013 Author Share Posted January 14, 2013 I grew up loving to play simulators, I think it teaches patience as well as finding subtle gratification in things like managing to land a jet on a carrier, instead today all there is is insta-gratification in zombie killer games and arcade simulators. It's sad that the golden age of PC simulation games is long gone cause they sure could use a makeover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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